"The woman herself alone is not the image of God; whereas the man alone is the image of God as fully and completely as when the woman is joined with him."

"For pride is the beginning of sin."

"Even in those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression; that is, who had not yet sinned of their own individual will, as Adam did, but had drawn from him original sin."

"I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love... I sought what I might love, in love with loving."

"Our first parents [Adam and Eve] fell into an open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted; for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it."